Navaneeth Krishnan

Navi Mumbai · Open to remote

Navaneeth Krishnan

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I help startups ship AI systems that move from demo to production: MCP tools, fine-tuning pipelines, inference workflows, CV automation, and full-stack product surfaces.

100% Job Success5.0 Client Rating

Projects

Work that makes the case

AI infrastructure project

RailCompute

MCP-native fine-tuning workflow that moves from natural-language model intent to packaged model artifacts.

Problem

Fine-tuning required manual dataset prep, training scripts, GPU setup, eval tracking, packaging, and reporting.

What I built

Worked on building an MCP-native fine-tuning control plane using Python, FastAPI, MCP tools, YOLO, and ONNX to turn natural-language training requests into documented model artifacts.

MCPPythonFastAPIYOLOONNX

Contract AI platform engineering

BrainDrive

Production platform work around a self-hosted, user-owned AI system with modular plugins and hosted services.

Problem

A self-hosted AI platform needed reliable product surfaces for model access, hosted workflows, usage paths, and release operations.

What I built

Worked on building production AI platform surfaces using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Python, and hosted model workflows to improve self-hosted and hosted AI product infrastructure.

TypeScriptReactFastAPIPythonPostgreSQL

Computer vision demo

Padel Vision Analytics

Real-time sports analytics prototype with player IDs, pose, ball tracking, and stable visual overlays.

Problem

Sports footage is messy: occlusion, small ball motion, player overlap, and camera movement make reliable overlays hard.

What I built

Worked on building a sports computer-vision pipeline using YOLOv8, TrackNet, DeepSORT, MMPose, and OpenCV to produce player tracking, ball tracking, pose cues, and stable demo overlays.

YOLOv8TrackNetDeepSORTMMPoseOpenCV

Experience

Where I've worked

RailCompute

AI infrastructure project

Navi Mumbai · Feb 2026 – Present

railcompute.com
  • Built an MCP-native fine-tuning workflow that turns natural-language model goals into data prep, training plans, GPU-backed runs, eval summaries, and packaged artifacts.
  • Shipped a PCB defect detection proof run with YOLO11n, ONNX export, inference code, metrics, model card, and training documentation.
  • Focused on the control-plane problem: orchestration, run state, eval visibility, artifact packaging, and human-readable reporting.

Upwork

Top Rated

AI/ML Solutions · B2B Consulting

Remote · US / UK / EU clients · Jan 2024 – Jun 2026

upwork.com/freelancers/navaneeth
  • Delivered AI/ML systems for international clients across computer vision, generative AI, data workflows, and applied automation.
  • Public profile proof: Top Rated, 100% Job Success, 5.0 rating, and 10 total jobs.
  • Owned discovery, architecture, evaluation, delivery, and client handoff for business-facing AI workflows.

BrainDrive LLC

Core AI Engineer

US-based · remote · Jan 2025 – May 2026

braindrive.ai
  • Worked on production platform surfaces for a self-hosted, user-owned AI system with React/TypeScript frontend and Python/FastAPI backend architecture.
  • Built and improved hosted/product infrastructure around model access, usage workflows, platform reliability, and release operations.
  • Contributed across full-stack AI product engineering: backend services, frontend surfaces, deployment, usage-related workflows, and system integration.

Demos

Demos

Computer vision demo

Padel Vision Analytics

Sports CV pipeline for tracking players, pose, ball movement, and stable visual overlays from match footage.

YOLOv8TrackNetDeepSORTMMPoseOpenCV
BrainDrive ModelMatch preview

LLM evaluation support

BrainDrive ModelMatch

Supporting BrainDrive work for comparing models on product tasks like coverage, factuality, and hallucination risk.

PythonLiteLLMFastAPIPostgreSQL
OneCollector OCR Mobile App preview

Client CV/OCR build

OneCollector OCR Mobile App

Real-time mobile OCR for One Piece TCG cards, tuned for motion blur, perspective, and tiny ID regions.

YOLOv8Custom OCROpenCVPyTorchSwiftAndroidJava

Research

Publication

Micro-Expressions with Swin Transformer Tiny

Published work on micro-expression recognition using Swin-T on CASME II, comparing spatial and temporal heads, with gains from temporal cues and RAF-DB pretraining.

PyTorchCASME II
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Education

Education

B.TECH in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, NMIMS, Navi Mumbai (22-26)